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1) Painted lady
Summary
After a failed suicide attempt Maggie Sheridan is taken in by Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian.
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"Distressed young heiress Norma Restarick comes to see Hercule Poirot about 'a murder she might have committed.' The detective consults an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, who lives in the same building as the young woman and her two roommates. When Norma's childhood nanny is found dead, apparently by suicide, Poirot believes he has identified the victim. Next he must deduce the killer, while Norma's family fears for her sanity"--Container....
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Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
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History meets mystery in this PBS series, with four feature-length episodes set at the height of World War II. War has torn the social fabric of the once quiet coastal community of Hastings and DCS Christopher Foyle's investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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In A Scandal in Belgravia, Sherlock gets embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, and finds himself employing every one of his remarkable skills to survive as the unlikely duo square off in a battle of witsp5sand perhaps emotions. The Hounds of Baskerville whisks the increasingly popular detective and Watson to the wilds of Dartmoor, and face to face with the supernatural lurking in the eerie landscape.
16) Sherlock Holmes
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Incident at Victoria Falls: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to South Africa to save the world's most famous diamond - the Star of Africa. En route via the Orient Express, someone is killed and one of the passengers is the murderer. How does Holmes save the day?
Sherlock Holmes and the leading lady: A devastating new weapon of war has been stolen, leading Holmes and Watson to old Vienna for an entirely new mystery set amid the splendor of Viennese...